Charlotte McKendrick is your typical thirty-something stay-at-home mom. She has three beautiful children, a loving family, special friends, and the most wonderful, adoring husband. Her life is a dream.

Er . . . let’s try this again.

Charlotte McKendrick is not your typical thirty-something stay-at-home mom. Yes, she’s got three beautiful children, a loving family (all of them lingerers—you’ll see), and her friends are special, all right! As far as her wonderful, adoring husband, what a joke! That bastard abandoned her and the kids six months ago.

Now, she will do anything she can to survive and provide for her children. Even if it means signing on the dotted line . . .

Mitch Colton is the CEO of Colton Technologies. Most of his year is spent traveling around the world, bringing companies the latest innovations in automobile technology. He doesn’t have time for a traditional relationship and the BS that comes with it. He doesn’t do the “marriage” thing, the “kid” thing, and he certainly doesn’t do the “falling in love” thing. All that said, he still wants someone to come home to. Someone who will offer everything he wants, and nothing he doesn’t. He realizes loyalty paired with these kinds of demands won’t come cheap. No problem. What he doesn’t realize is that once Charlotte McKendrick signs that dotted line, he’ll be paying with a lot more than money.

Finding myself again through my writing in The Lost & Found Series, The One, and The GEG Series has been nothing short of a dream come true. Also, it makes people feel better when I laugh randomly or talk to myself, knowing it’s my characters and not “the voices” . . . that would be creepy. 

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First, let me say that I don’t know why I waited so long to read this book, I could kick myself for waiting.

Okay, now that that’s out of the way. I had so many feels on this book and I half listened to the audiobook and half read it.

There was some of this

A lot of this

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Okay gifs aside,

This story is unlike any I have read, Tatum and Jared hate each other like it’s their Job, living next door to each other since Tatum was ten they were besties until high school and Jared started treating her like a leper, making all her three years of high school hell.

“I wouldn’t care if you lived or died.”

Jared is a piece of work, only talking to Tatum to tell her to either move out of his way or ask her what the *uck she wanted and causing everyone in school to treat her the same way, spreading vicious rumors about her and blacklisting her from parties.  Tatum goes to France for a year just to get away from him and come back a new girl. She is tired of Jared and his friends *hit and starts hitting back, sometimes literally!

I was all over this book, from the semi backstabbing friend, who I wanted to slap half the time and the things that both characters said that had my jaw on the floor I was landed right back in school with this read. I loved seeing Tatum push back, if not a little too far sometimes, but it was refreshing to see a character fight back and not lay down and take it until something big happens and forces them to fight back. It’s so obvious the sexual tension that is dripping off the pages from the first time a request for a lap dance is made. Tatum pushes Jared so much that he finally breaks and tells her why he has hated her for the past three years and let me tell you, my heart cracked for him. From the music choices and sexually charged banter, this was a finish in one sitting read. I am currently purchasing the rest in the series. Penelope Douglas could easily become one of my favorite authors if this awesomeness spreads into her other books.

4 out of 5 Stars

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We’re delighted to be sharing the cover for Sweet Fall, Tillie Cole’s upcoming release from the
Sweet Home series.
Sweet Fall is Austin and Lexi’s story and can be read as a standalone novel.

TITLE: Sweet Fall
SERIES: Sweet Home #3
AUTHOR: Tillie Cole
AGE GROUP/GENRE: New Adult Contemporary Romance
PUBLICATION DATE: 26th August 2014
COVER REVEAL ORGANISED BY: Kelly @ Have Book Will Read

We all have secrets.

Secrets well buried.

Until we find the one soul who makes the burden of such secrets just that little bit easier to bear.

Lexington “Lexi” Hart is a senior at the University of Alabama. Surrounded by her best friends, her loving family and having fulfilled her life-long dream of making the Crimson Tide cheer squad, everything is going exactly as she always dreamed it would. But beneath her happy exterior, demons lurk, threatening to jeopardize everything Lexi has worked to achieve. When events in her life become too much to cope with, Lexi finds herself spiraling down into the realm of her biggest fear. Lexi falls hard, victim once again to the only thing that can destroy her and, on the way, finds herself falling straight into the dangerous tattooed arms of a guy from the wrong side of the tracks.

Austin Carillo, starting Wide Receiver for the Alabama Crimson Tide, must get picked in this year’s NFL draft. He needs it. His brothers need it. Most importantly, his mother desperately needs it. Brought up in a world where the poor are forgotten, the sick are left to fend for themselves and no hero miraculously appears to pull you out of hell, Austin had no other choice but to make a living on the wrong side of the law—until football offered Austin the break to get his life back on track. But when a family tragedy drags him back into the clutches of the gang he believed he had left far behind, Austin finds himself falling. Falling back into criminal ways and falling deep into a suffocating darkness. Until a troubled yet kindred spirit stumbles across his path, where Austin quickly finds he is falling for a young woman, a young woman who might just have the power to save him from his worst enemy: himself.

Can two troubled souls find a lasting peace together? Or will they finally succumb to the demons threatening to destroy them?

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About Tillie Cole

Tillie Cole is a Northern girl through and through. She originates from a place called Teesside on that little but awesomely sunny (okay I exaggerate) Isle called Great Britain. She was brought up surrounded by her English rose mother — a farmer’s daughter, her crazy Scottish father, a savagely sarcastic sister and a multitude of rescue animals and horses.

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Twenty-seven year old Ocean Hawthorne thought he’d known loss and pain when his twin sister Stormie died. It was his fault the world would no longer see her beautiful smile or hear her captivating laughter. The former world champion in the vicious world of MMA fighting thought he’d been through the worst and has now carried that guilt and pain with him since.

Then he met Livie Acosta. The moment he laid his eyes on the exotic beauty, he was hooked. In that split second of looking into her wild and hurt eyes, his heart began to beat again. He knew then that he would never be able to let her go… but was that the right thing for him to do? Because yet again, Ocean found himself surrounded by a familiar darkness, a pain so strong that even breathing hurt, and living felt impossible. He’d pushed too far in the effort to love and help her, and now… now he didn’t know if he’d ever see her again.

Lawrence Hawthorne has been through the ringer when it came to hurt and disappointment, but nothing could have prepared him for the possibility of losing Livie. He’d just found her and now—well, now he didn’t know what to think. To him, Livie was more than just a girl, more than just a friend. To Law, Livie was someone he needed to help and protect, even from herself, and he’d failed that simple task.

Will the Hawthorne cousins who have sworn to protect Livie survive her selfish act, or will they crumble, yet again?

Review:

The way Oceans Collide left off with you know Livie going all ‘I cant take life anymore’ I was pumped to see what would happen, would she make it, would she not what if Ocean never forgave her, will she ever forgive herself? So many questions and while some were answered some where a nice Segway into the next book. Ocean looses himself in this book and while he is trying to deal with Liv and the aftermath of what she did he is also faced with old demons he thought long gone. Everything that happened with his sister brings a tremendous amount of guilt flooding to the surface after seeing Liv do what she did. While I don’t want to give too much away I will say that this book was a lot better (IMO) than the first, while the first kept me reading and wanting to know what happen this book kept me glued to the pages. I read and got so wrapped up in the characters lives that it was well into the late night before I put it down!

We also find that new love is blossoming as well as new battles to be fought not just with Ocean and Live but with Law as well. I had very mixed feeling about Law in the first book I was very ‘Dude, why are you up Liv’s ASS all the time, that’s Oceans girl’ but mainly that was because I fell in love with Ocean right away. He’s just so dreamy, in a back off or I will break your face kind of way. He makes me all

 In this book you see a whole new side to Law, he may have finally found his one true love, and that made me like him a lot more, not as much as Ocean but then well I love the Ocean. I saw a different side of Law, and while he is protective of Livie, he is even more so with his love interest. This book to me was a lot more into the feelings of each person and they all deal with the aftermath of what Liv did in different ways and as they try to come to grips with it are faced with new challenges like crazy families, crazy hospital workers and past demons. Melissa did tease us with  a ‘soft’ cliff hanger which means that it’s not as bad as the first one but you are still left like  ‘OMG what is going to happen next?’ BUt it’s don in such a way where you wont have to stalk her, like I sometimes do, looking for a hint of what’s next.

Melissa did a great job with this one and I can’t wait to read the third book and fourth book!

**I was gifted this book in exchange for my honest and fair review****

4 out of 5 stars!

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From #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken, comes the third and final book in the New York Time’s Bestselling Bet Series…

Boring Beth Lynn has always lived up to her nickname… until she wakes up in a hotel bed next to a sexy as sin state senator she re-connected with at a wedding the previous night.

The biggest problem? She can’t seem to remember anything about the night before except for crying into a box of cookies, and she’s pretty sure Grandma Nadine slipped something in her drink. And what should have been a one night stand turns into a six day adventure when Grandma whisks them off to Hawaii to save them from the ensuing media firestorm.

Jace isn’t looking for commitment — he believes he made that clear when he left the wedding with Beth. Then again, he can’t remember much of anything other than the way her skin felt beneath his hands. Now he’s stuck with her at some lame couple’s retreat and trying his hardest to fight the attraction only a woman like Beth could invoke.

He doesn’t think it can get any worse.

But one spider attack… A donkey ride from hell… And an unfortunate episode with Viagra tea — and there’s one thing Jace knows for sure: He should never have agreed to Grandma Nadine’s suggestion in the first place.

Because if this isn’t paradise, and it isn’t a vacation — that only leaves one option.

Survival.

But to make it through alive… they might lose their hearts in the process.

(Romantic Comedy, Friends to lovers, Vacation Romance, New Adult Romance, Funny Stand Alone, Bargain Books, Humorous Romance)

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I’m super excited about this book, I loved the Significant series and constantly read it over and over again, yes all the books. So when Shelly said there was going to be another book, I flipped and failed like an animal from the muppet’s. And the cover is soooo, Ohhhh, and Ahhhh.

 A good girl goes bad in the third and final book in New York Times bestselling author Sophie Jordan’s sexy New Adult romance series—where three Ivy League suite-mates testing their boundaries as they seek higher knowledge of just how far they can go.

Months after her boyfriend dumped her, Georgia can still hear the insults he hurled at her. Boring. Predictable. Tame. Tired of feeling bad, she’s ready to change her image, and go a little wild. What better way to prove her ex wrong than a hot night of adventure at the secret campus kink club?

In the shadowy den of the club, she unexpectedly runs into Logan Mulvaney, her friend’s little brother. A player extraordinaire too hot for his own good, he may be younger, but the guy is light years ahead when it comes to the opposite sex. Now he’s telling her to go home-”good girls” don’t belong here!

Georgia is tired of having others define her. She’s going to teach Logan a lesson he won’t forget-one white hot, mind-wrecking kiss . . . that leads to another . . . and another . . . and. . . . Realizing she’s way in over her head, Georgia runs.

Only Logan won’t let her go. Everywhere she goes he’s there, making her want every inch of him. Making her forget who she is. Who he is. And just how wrong they are for each other.

Sophie Jordan is an international and New York Times bestselling author whose books include historical romances and the Firelight series. When she’s not writing, she spends her time overloading on caffeine (lattes preferred), talking plotlines with anyone who will listen (including her kids), and cramming her DVR with true-crime and reality-television shows. She lives in Houston